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The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25

The Civil Service Commission has
nearly completed q very radical re-
vision and systematic arrangement
of its rules, and when they are APP
proved by the president they will be
promulgated. Among the changes
made are the abolition OF the forty
fve.year-ago limit which now applies
to certain classes of public employees.
There never has been any reason for
this rule. The idea 9 capable and ex-
~perieIced man of forty-fve is not as
well qualified for public employment
as a callow yorsh OF vighteel has long
been felt to be an absurdity.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25
me Terrible affects Of the Drouth

A Cara. ILL.,, Special says: Never In the
memory GILMAN has the Ohio river been at
so lowa stage. while navigation has lone
since been entirely suspended between
Cairo and Padncah. Every stream II dried
up. Forest fires are threa tened south ri
here Tor forty miles in Missouri; cast into
Kentucky and Tennessee and north
nearly one hundred miles III Illinois the
dense forests are one solid sheet OF flame.
Farmers are fleeing from their homes.
What little grain they saved from the gum
mer's work, houses. barns and miles al
fences are destroyed. Ifrain does not come.
and in abundance. soon thousands 81
these people win necessarily BECOME ri.
pers. a report camethAt a party OF hunt
ers from Central Illinois, TWENTY-FIVE IN
number, bad been surrounded By fire n
"NiRgerwood swamp thirty miles from
here In Missouri, and probably were All
burned up. Numerous instances III loss al
lie are being reported as having occurred
by the forest fires in Missouri. Hsntucky
and Illinois.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25
DISASTER AT SEA.
One Hundred and Thirty Passen-
gers, Many of Them In the Act of
PRAYER. Launched into Eterntty.

One Hundred and Thirty Passen-
gers, Many of Them in the Act of
Prayer, Launched into Eternity.
The Dutch steamer w. a.. ScholSen, Capt.
Taat, which left Rotterdam on the 10th
inst, for New York, was sunk by a collision
with the steamer Rosa Mary Of Hartlepool,
at IL o'clock Saturday night ten miles off
Dover, Eng. The Scholten carried a compile
ment 81 23O passengers and crew. The
steamer Ehro. 81 Sunderland, rescued nine
ty oT the crew and passengers and landed
them at the Suilors' home, Dover. One
hundred and forty Of the passengers are
missing. At the time OF the accident a
dense fog prevailed. The Scholten
VASE struck on the port bow
by the Rosa Mary. Immediately alter
the shock was Islt the Sch0lten's passen-
gers. all OF whom had retired for the night.
rushed on deck ia their night gowns. The
boats we're promptly ordered TO be lower
ed, but It was found Enat only two were
available. The three others were use
less and we're not lowered. The
water rushed swiftly through the hole in
the bow. and q terrible scene ensued. The
panic-stricken passengers uttered piercing
shrieks and many fell upon their knees and
prayed aloud. Little children cIung to their
mothers, who themselves we're shrek.
ing With terror. Within twenty
~saiuutes 81 the shock the Scholten
Was engulfed. AL those who had put on
hie-belts hoated and we're rescued by the
boats from the steamer Ebro. which crnis-
ed around until 4 o'clock in the morning.
Man. Of the rescued lost wives, husbands.
brothers and sisters. According to the
lateit statement there were 2IO
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25

in Europe has such a deep, personal hold
on tho affections of the bulk Of its subjects
as the HohenzOllern, there are the gravest
sort OF public reason why this death
cloud hanging over Germany should alarm
and saddcn everybody.
should Kaiser william Ne the first to
die, his legitimate successor is the Grown
Prince" Frederick William.
1t locks now as If that terrible period OF
suffering which Gen Grant passed through,
when it was merely a question OF how
long nature could war with relentless
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25

zion act and "a firm ard resolute govern,
c1on Si ~ That for every offence against the
inw committed before the passage Oh Hne
fgs sryS it I for ! you to II say whether Irelon trs
l leana for the imperial parliament the
possibility ty' Of pr her Continued s9i III sRs
TDio me is likely to be increased, or whether
tb Hlon administrative incapacity does TO-
render much nearer the concession Oh s"c IL
reasonable powers OF sell. government n9
will make our people, law abiding prosper
Gus and happy.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25
A sIcKENINc SPECTACLE.
Amid the Roar and Cries Of the Ter
rIfIed Animals Barnum's CIRCUS
Goes Up In Smoke--WiId Animals
At LaFRa.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Sunday night the
goth, the main building 0! Barnum anu
Haiiev's urcatcSt SHOW on earth was entire
" destroyed by fire in 30 minutes,
One o' the men was in the horse building
when mis- lantern exploded, i~gn,tlng the
Lav and straw. Before the first
alarm ceased sounding the whole puma
ing was envelOped i'll fire ana no
one dared to approach the building, oelnS
fearful of the CIazcd animals. 1hr'e e!e-
Dhants were burned up and th!rty,,S'N
broke from their iasteninCs II dashed
rbrougb the sides Of the burning building.
Their roars and trumpetlngS and SOUNDS
Of torment we're terrific. Six elephants
and a large African hippopotamus
rushed about the streets presenting
a sickening appearance. Their sides were
burned ana great pieces OF flesh a ioo1
square fell off. Thirty elephants and one
large lion made their escape and haves start
ed off across the country coward talrheld
and Easton. In the horse room
were all the ring animals, trained stall
lions monies, etc. These were all burned.
In the upper rooms were the tents, poles,
seats. harness., etc, for the entire show,
and these, too, were all destroyed. In the
cat room were the birds, III Onkeys, three
rhiuoceroses, hyenas, tigers, lions and all
the menagerie, which fell Il prey 70
the flames. So rapid did the
flames leap across the main
building that the firemen made no at
to save it, but turned their streams
the chariot buildings and car sheds
which they succeeded in saving, but the
heat was so intense that this was accom-
plished with the greatest difficulty. The
total loss is estimated at 500, 600, upon
which there was but $4,000 insurance.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25

rorsors on board the scholtTsn,
P onsim" 139 drowned and missing. The
G F"t'o late and i5urth engineer have been
r msSS mad among the dead. The second
nate Of the Srhoitcn reports that he was
ln".s u, man ;. saw nu steamer
Som aSSS F through the fog. Before S,1 9ay,
wms Struck in the fore riggingn and port bow.
The other vessel. which he now preSnmeS
WIS the ROSE Mary, backed of and d,SaP.
naareI, Within twenty minutes the SEho!.
Ten sank. The captain OF the Rosa MAT
stotes that his vessel was run into %nII9
anchored southeast Of South Sand heau
by an unknown teamer.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25

pain, were upon the crown prince. And
there is no room for hoping that he will
survive. Royal people are invariably a
great deal worse off than they are repre-
scented, Bulletins always represent them
as coming on favorably until they are in
articulo mortis. Then comes an u~nfavOr-
able bulletin. Next death on a pale
horse. The Crown Prince married in 1858,
the eldest born of the Queen OF England,
better known as the Princess Royal. The
crown prince and his wife have six chill
dren living. The eldest, Prince Frederick
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25
Although the Pennsylvania Railroad

Although the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has expended more money
on permanent improvements in the
past six months than in any like
period in recent years, yet it has just
declared a semi-annual dividend of 3
per cent instead OF the usual 2 1-2 per
cent dividend. This does not look as
if it had been injured by the Interstate
commerce law.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25
the Buffalo Express.

- NN %tAeHt ANAEAC0Re
Queer people ! meet every day in
my car" said q talkatlye porter TO
the headlight editor, as he clinked a
pocketful Of quarters in the ear Of the
insolvent scribe. Yes. 1t takes all
kinds OF people to makes world, and
guess the most peculiar specimens
among them drift under my car It's
quite an art TO handle them, and do
the right thing for everybody, not for
getting myself. made some big mis-
takes at the start. and many q GUAR.
ter lost by being q green hand. Now,
though, I've got it down pretty fine.
and size a person up the moment That
ne or she enters the car. If it's A
woman, ! always talk to her and tell
her GIL she wants to know, and do a
good deal Of bowing and scraping and
thanking and all that. Ifit'sa moth
81, admire the children and don't
hold my ears when they cry. If It's a
man ! shine his feathers and then Ies
lin coIdly alpne.'' "And ii IL Is q
bridal couple" asked the curious Re.
porter2 II stay III the other end 81
the car replied the senegambian.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25

After nearly 20 years service DR..
McCosh has resigned the presidency
OF Princeton college. The infrmities
of age warn him, he says, that it IS
time he should give over to another
the responsibilities he has borne for
So long a period. Under his admins
tration Princeton college has become
almost literally the centre OF the
Presbyterian church.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25
Sanitary work in the cities of Eng

Sanitary work in the cities of Eng,
land has reduced the death rate -
per cent. in the last 25 years,
That is q result well worth Sc.
curing in the United States, especially
in veiw of the approach ofcholera. 1t
is asserted that thorough sanitary
work here may reduce possible death
from epidemics a very much larger per
cent. IN the next two years.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25
William OF Prussia, was born iu January,

William OF Prussia, was born iu January,
1859.
He married the daughter of the late
Duke Won HSchleswig- Holstein, and already
they have three or four children, the
youngest having been born late il January
Of the present year. Naturally, Prince
William is in the army, and is 10Y major
in the guards. His brother Henry is q
lieutenant in the German navy.
The Crown prince learned to be a cabin
et-maker, and his eldest son, Prince Will
lam, who may.soon be emperor, was an
apprenticed ''deyil'' in a German printing
Office. He worked two years at typeset-
ting and imposing and then o year in the
hand.press
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25

There is some talk of the effect that
Edward Blake, the leader of the OPP
position in the Dominion Parliament,
will becomea candidate for some En-
glish or Irish constituency Tor a seat
in The British Parliament. He is an
orator of great power, and it is re-
ported that Gladstone has long urged
him to take this step.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25

At Bridgeport. Connecticut. Mrs.
President Cleveland has just attended
the dedication ofthe Sensible Institute,
4 working-woman's home for the girls
employed in a corset factory, about a
thousand ia all. The invitations. to
the number Of 2. 600. were all issued
TO working women, for whom the in
stiiute was tonnded by Warner BroR-
era. 81 that society. Society ladses
when il became known that Mrs.
Cleveland would be present, were
eager to obtain invitatioEs, but iajl-
ed and the working girls were not
tempted by the large sums Of money
offered them to part with theirs,
Mys Cleveland knows exactly how Ia
az to the SORT Of pnplie cere
monisq she vii take part ia without
her BIZ band.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25

The number of northern people who
have their noses pointed toward
southern California, increases daily.
Those uneasy wanderers who cannot
remain at home under any consider
alton, and who have tried every 9th
er quarter OF the globe for a winter
residence, are filled with enthusiasm
for that garden country.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25
GERMAN IMPERIAL FAMILY.
Critical Condition OF Emperor Will
lam and of the Grown Prince
Prin0a wimIac- the Successor.

Since the official announcement a few
days ago that the crown printe OF Ger
many was suffering from malignant cancer,
the state OF public feeling in Berlin Is
strung to the highest tension, Tor the popu'
lar conviction is that IT Is IA close race
which shall go first, the emperor or the
crOwnp prince.
Beside the fact that no r~eigning house
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25
WARNER,

a Chicago cierIy man preached q
sermon IN the impending execution Of
the death penalty in that city and
quoted from Burke: "Leniency to
crime is treason to virtue" People
filled with maudlin sentimentality
might Re benefited by bordering on
this question.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-01

Minister Washburne, who is at
the point Of death in Illinois, filled a
large space in the histry of the
country during the war and after.
wards. He is credited with having
discovered General Grant, though
such a man did not really need a
discoverer. He secured Grant bis
first commission at the head of a
regiment, and was among his staun.
chest supporters for the presidency.
He received appointment as minister
to France from General Grant. and
filled the mission with consummale
tact aud ability at the most critical
period in French history. Remain
ing ct his post during the seige of
Paris, and the short but frightful
orgies of the Commune, he so man.
aged that while protecting both
Americans and foreigners, he did
not incur the ill-will of the French
people. He has SO completely dis.
appeared from public life since his
return from abroad, that his services
are in danger of being forgotten.
Few Americans can show a cleaner
record of usefulness and honor, and
his death, which now seems immi-
nent, will be regretted b, good citi-
zens Of all political faiths.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-01
KILLING AT0WN.

There are towns in North Caro-
lima and Virginia that have been &C
tually killed by the characteristic
meanness of some leading citizens.
One or two old fogies who hold pro
perty can do.tbe work. Natural I'D,
yantages amount to nothing when
the old schemers and haters of pro-
gress hold the reins. The work is
generally done slowly, but it is done
effectually, indeed.
We have in mind town not 200
miles away that has been killed by
such a cOnrse-and so effectually
killed that not even the most pro-
gressiye citizen therein can ever
hope for o revival. This town proud
of her aristocratic standing, spurncd
all enterprises OF manufacturing
nature. A tobacco factory was es-
tablished, but such an industry was
not looked upon with favor by the
easeloving city fathers. The live
proprietor of the factory WAS In the
habit of rising early, and 0 long,
shrill whistle from his engine called
the factory hands TO work at an
early hour. This whistle was blown
at o'clock in the morning, disturb
ed the early slumber of the easy old
citizens, and they kicked. An ordi-
nance was passed, prohibiting Mr..
- from blowing his whistle ear
lier than 9 o'clock. What was the
result The factory shut its doors,
the story went out, and enterprise
and capital that would have gone
there and built up the town passed
by and stopped where there was a
warmer welcome.
This is but one sample, but 1t is
enough to tell the tale. We know
of another place where the fastidlous
city rulers have prohibited the rail.
road engines from blowing within
the incorporation, and where brass
bands are not allowed to play on tue
streets without the permission OF the
mayor. These are steps that move
toward municipal suicide. They
, kill slowly, but surely.
This is an age of activity, when
fogyism must step aside and l~t en-.
terprise have the floor. There is no
room for the old ideas OF ease and
repose, no matter how welcome they
were to our fathers and graudfathers.
Capital stops where it Is wanted and
eagerly sought, and not where a
town doubts whether or not it wants
it. The town that would grow must
love the whistle Of the factories
above all other music. 1t must be
willing to be walked by such music
at 6 o'clock in the morning and must
get up by that music and 60 to work
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-01
MARTINsBURG, W. VA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1887.
A TOUCHING OBITUARY.

Bill Skinner is Dead" said man
coming into the Office of Dakota
newspaper.
aMoses and thunder ~ yelled the
editor, beginning to jump around the
desk. "That old thief hasn't died,
has hef begun to think the old
fossil would live forever! He owed
me four years back subscription, but
lam willing to lose it inst for the
satisfaction OF knowing that the
bowling old hypocrite has got what
he deserves. Besides, if l went out
and said q word sbout-it the old
woman and the boys would chase
me off the place with pitehfork.
Got to give an obituary, though !
suppose" Then be sat down and
wrote:
sit is with a heavy heart and jag
ging pen that we make the announce
ment that William Horatio Skinner
is no more For many years he has
been a leading citizen OF this place ;
a man honured, respected, large
hearted, able; a man who touched
nothing that he did not adorn. This
usually happy community is plunged
into the deepest gloom by the sad
event. But what is our loss is
heavens gain. Rest in peace! He
was q kind husband and an indul.
gent father."-Ddk0tG Bell.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-01
rhs wives of the shah.

But one form Of diversion is forbidden
the royal ladies; l refer to their inter-
views with the court physicians. Next
TO the sacred luxury Of a confidential
talk with father confessor Of favored
pastor, there is scarce any solace which
possesses such attractions for the average
woman as a sympathetic recital Of her
troubles and ailments to trusted family
physician. But neither one nor the other
Is allowed 10 see the wives of the shah.
No priest nor doctor can receive from
them tho soothing confession of SORROWS
and sins or the narrative OF aches and
pains.
OF course II she is iii then wife Of the
shah receives medical attention. But the
physician may not obtain even sight Of
her face. Behind curtain, surrounded
by her attendants, she responds to his
questions; in extreme need she may show
her tongue, but no other part Of her
features. Nor is the interview altogether
attractive to the physician, especially il
he be a native, for he must necessarily
be extremely guarded in his language,
and II the patient dies il may go hard
with the doctor. He does not venture to
prepare or furnish the drugs himself, and
the medicines he prescribes must be COM
pounded by servants of the palace, to in
sure against danger Of poisoning, as well
rs to protect the practitioner from sus-
picion.
The European physicians practicing at
he court OF the shah exercise somewhat
greater liberty in the matter Of drugs and
prescriptions, but even they are obliged
10 proceed with great caution, and never
attempt any serious surgical operations
when the patient is Mussulman.-S
w. g. Benjamin in New York Star.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-01
Old shoe. and charaetsrn.

DR.. Care, Of Basic, has suggested that
the characters of people might BIO well
diagnosed by their old shoes. Take
shoe which has been worn for a couple
OF months; II the sole and heel are equally
worn, it belongs to an energetic man Of
business, a trustworthy officer, an exem-
plary wife, an excellent mother; If the
outer edge only Is only worn, the owner
Is Of assfantastic, adventurous tendency, a
raAh and bold temper; II It is the inner
edge which Is worn, the fact indicates
irresolution and weakness in man,
modesty In q woman. Such at least is
the bold generalization of DR.. Cares
shoemaksT, whose own shoes one sus-
poets must Be worn on the outside, and
who also states that where the wearer
not only wears the outer edge, but also
rasps the point Of his shoes and leaves
the rest almost new, he is person whose
honesty Is TO be suspected. The
Atheu@um.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-01
That impuIsive lady who. at Il

That impulsive lady who, at the
Presidents reception in Philadel.
phia, threw her arms about Mr.. Cleve-
lands neck and kissed him, in the
presence of thousands of people,
should have had more consideration
for the dignity Of his Office. No
doubt the President is afflicted as
much as the balance of his sex with
an appetite for that sort of blissful
indulgence, but with his proyerbial
modesty, he shrinks from making a
public display of it-particularly II
the lady is oldish and everything but
good-looking.
Every patriotic American will re.
sent this latest attempt to embar-
rass the COMMANDMENTS Chief of our
Army and Navy. Democratic pa
pers will, of course, see in this
strange woman's action base Re.
publican scheme to bring a blush to
the Presidents face.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-01
TOO FLY.

"Say femme use your telephone
mint ~ he exclaimed, as he rush.
ed into an office on Griswold Street.
"Certainly."
"Hello! hello! Give me 62O5. Is
that you darling'"
("Yes.")
"Say, pet, l left my wallet on the
dresser with $3.50 in it. Did you
find it,"
W Yes.")
"Good! 'Fraid I'd lost on the
street. Big load off my mind.
Shall bring up those shoes /"
("Yes.'o
"T'm dead broke, you know, but
perhaps I can borrow s. until after
dinner, so as not to disappoint you
Good.by, darling"
Good-by, sweetness.")
"Say," he said to the man at the
desk, "perhaps you overheard what
1 said, and will lend me the $5!"
The occupant pointed over his
shoulder to the door.
What? Skipg"
Yes"
"Too oldFn
eyes,"
"Been caught beforei"
I" Yes.n - w. 1881
~ skip! Good-by !"-Detron Fret
Press. s
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-01
HUNTINGTON. of Pacific Railway

Huntington, of Pacific Railway
notoriety, is vita rather rough
one, it is true; but he has the mack
of saying things in an off.hand man.
ner, the very novelty OF which will
impose upon the public. To shake
100000 under the nose of any aver
age congressman sin quiet, father.
ly fashion " is, we would imagine,
about as convincing an argument of
the desirability OF a measure of leg
islation as one could well use in
these times of mercenary politi.
clans,